Bad shrimp......

[calhounreef]

Someone decided to eat a hammer coral. He'll be in his new home Tuesday =)

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[oldedb]

How did you catch him? Mine have expensive tastes as well and i am looking to relocate mine but havent come up with any great ways to catch them.

 

[newbie20]

What kind of shrimp is that?

 

[indecloudzua]

you know..i had a small frog spawn disappear over night when i had some peppermint shrimp..may have had a camel in there..but i never found the culprit and my hammer has been doing good but i havent had any shrimp in a while

 

[ringo®]

Gotta make sure the Pep's stay fed. They don't stay hungry for long.

 

[calhounreef]

oldedb;942974 wrote: How did you catch him? Mine have expensive tastes as well and i am looking to relocate mine but havent come up with any great ways to catch them.

Caught him with a plastic bottle and some pellet food, had him in about 10 minutes

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[calhounreef]

Newbie20;942999 wrote: What kind of shrimp is that?

From what I can tell it's a peppermint shrimp, doesn't look like what everyone calls a camel shrimp

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[calhounreef]

I noticed him picking on the coral earlier that morning but I let him be to see if he would eventually leave it alone. No such luck, he kept coming back nibbling at him all day so it's time to relocate

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[jc_k]

whats the thing you keeping him in? Would be a nifty little container to have sitting around.

 

[calhounreef]

JC_k;943124 wrote: whats the thing you keeping him in? Would be a nifty little container to have sitting around.

I don't really know the exact name for it but it's just a plastic container designed to hang on your tank kind of like an isolation chamber I guess, I drilled holes in mine so it could have a little bit of flow through it.

 

[destineyfoster]

It's called a birthing box, atleast the ones used for FW are. It's made to hold fish that give live birth but I've seen them used in many different ways. Lol

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[tbub1221]

I moved my torch coral to my display yesterday and my peppermint jumped it immediately I had to run it off 3 times I'm kicking myself for forgeting to remove that shrimp during the move it must have been in with my live rock , there very elusive I can't seem to catch it.

 

[calhounreef]

DestineyFoster;943335 wrote: It's called a birthing box, atleast the ones used for FW are. It's made to hold fish that give live birth but I've seen them used in many different ways. Lol

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Yup, that's it

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[calhounreef]

Tbub1221;943367 wrote: I moved my torch coral to my display yesterday and my peppermint jumped it immediately I had to run it off 3 times I'm kicking myself for forgeting to remove that shrimp during the move it must have been in with my live rock , there very elusive I can't seem to catch it.

I had to trap mine, didn't see any other way of getting him out

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[kstyle13]

My peppermint has a permanent home in my refugium. No matter how many times I put him in the display or put screen, mesh, teeth he finds a way to get into the sump. I've even watched him crawl above the water line and flick himself into the overflow. So I gave up after 20 times of getting him in the display he nows lives in the fuge

 

[destineyfoster]

After reading about how people have issues with them eating coral, I kimda hope my wrasse will off ours but I highly doubt he will.

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[calhounreef]

Yeah I've definitely decided on no peps for the big tank unless they're needed for some reason. Just added a scarlet skunk as a replacement

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[ringo®]

XxshaggyxX;943395 wrote: Yeah I've definitely decided on no peps for the big tank unless they're needed for some reason. Just added a scarlet skunk as a replacement

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Hope you don't have any LPS to spot feed.....they make it a total P.I.T.A.

 

[jdw]

DestineyFoster;943335 wrote: It's called a birthing box, atleast the ones used for FW are. It's made to hold fish that give live birth but I've seen them used in many different ways. Lol

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I used mine as a solitary confinement for a mean little blue damsel. By the time i let him go, my solitary confinement had become a floating refugium. All sorts of algae growing on it.

 

[calhounreef]

Have a hammer and small frag of zoas, but don't spot feed

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